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This collection of essays discusses the concepts of citizenship and civic leadership in light of contemporary challenges to American democracy. The authors invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution, and offe...
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Introduction by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley
Chapter 1: Aristotle on Citizenship, the Common Good, and Human Happiness by Susan D. Collins
Chapter 2: On Liberal Citizenship by Michael Zuckert
Chapter 3: Fragmentary Wholes: Rousseau on Citizenship by Clifford Orwin
Chapter 4: "Is There No Virtue Among Us?" James Madison and the Office of the American Citizen by Greg Weiner
Chapter 5: Virtue and Self-Government: Reflections on the Compatibility of 21
st American Character and the Demands of Self-Government by Henry Olsen
Chapter 6: A Political Science of Mores: Tocqueville on Citizenship and Civic Leadership by Trevor Shelley
Chapter 7: The Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clauses by Kurt Lash
Chapter 8: American Citizenship and the Constitution: The Fourteenth Amendment as Hinge and Bridge by Rogers M. Smith
Chapter 9: "So terrible among men": Montesquieu and Hamilton on the Judicial Power and National Citizenship by Ann Ward
Chapter 10: Nationalism and Citizenship by Rich Lowry
Chapter 11: Globalization's Nationalist Future: Migration, Citizenship and the Pandemic by Henry Thomson
Chapter 12: Nationalism Won't Enhance National Unity by Shikha Dalmia
Chapter 13: Can Dual Citizenship be Equal Citizenship? by Christopher Caldwell
Chapter 14: Legalize Undocumented Immigrants: It Will Cut Them Free of the Ball and Chain that Stalls their Integration by Tomas Jimenez
Chapter 15: Relations Before Transactions: Racial Inequality and Citizenship in America by Glenn Cartman Loury
Chapter 16: Debating Citizenship: The Reverend J.H. Jackson and the Contours of Everyday Black Conservatism by Angela D. Dillard,
Chapter 17: Race and the American Experiment: Jefferson, Madison, and the Problem of Integration by Peter C. Myers
Chapter 18: Microaggressions and the Public Good by Elizabeth Corey
Chapter 19: Educating Citizen Van Winkle by Susan McWilliams Barndt
Chapter 20: The Constitution in the Civic Education of Americans by William M. McClay
Chapter 21: Putting the US Constitution in its Place: A Broader Agenda for Civic Education by Peter Levine
About the author
Carol McNamara is associate director for public programs for the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.
Trevor Shelley is instructor and assistant director of Graduate Studies at the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership.
